If you know much about sci-fi, you’ll know that Crowley’s quiet yet expansive epic – which the revered/reviled literary critic Harold Bloom called “a neglected masterpiece” before comparing its achievement to that of Alice in Wonderland – is technically “fantasy”; it’s got fairies and impossibilities where sci-fi is more about improbable (and often horrifying) projections of the future. Still,the complex, emotional narrative incorporates enough elements of sci-fi – and its bed-fellow dystopia – to make for a good introduction to what the genre has to offer."
Lauren Olyer's taste isn't too bad...pity she doesn't know [redacted] about the literature. And thank goodness her ignorance is being promoted by both DAZED and, more annoyingly, SF SIGNAL.
As I often remind Scott Cupp, he recommended this to me when it first appeared, and I bought a copy and read it. I didn't much care for it, for reasons I don't know recall. Thanks to recent discussions on FM, I figure it's because my IQ is too low.
Or "drily twee" if such a thing can be imagined, w/o reading Crowley or some others who will reach for the cute and treat it with deadly seriousness (even when deadly serious with humor).
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"LITTLE, BIG BY JOHN CROWLEY
If you know much about sci-fi, you’ll know that Crowley’s quiet yet expansive epic – which the revered/reviled literary critic Harold Bloom called “a neglected masterpiece” before comparing its achievement to that of Alice in Wonderland – is technically “fantasy”; it’s got fairies and impossibilities where sci-fi is more about improbable (and often horrifying) projections of the future. Still,the complex, emotional narrative incorporates enough elements of sci-fi – and its bed-fellow dystopia – to make for a good introduction to what the genre has to offer."
Lauren Olyer's taste isn't too bad...pity she doesn't know [redacted] about the literature. And thank goodness her ignorance is being promoted by both DAZED and, more annoyingly, SF SIGNAL.
As I often remind Scott Cupp, he recommended this to me when it first appeared, and I bought a copy and read it. I didn't much care for it, for reasons I don't know recall. Thanks to recent discussions on FM, I figure it's because my IQ is too low.
Crowley can be a bit twee, if not as haplessly so as the reviewer here.
Or "drily twee" if such a thing can be imagined, w/o reading Crowley or some others who will reach for the cute and treat it with deadly seriousness (even when deadly serious with humor).
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